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Utah LGBTQ+ Economic Summit & Expo returns September 18 with business awards, job fair, and resources for growth
Q Salt Lake Magazine - Utah
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July 30, 2025
The Utah LGBTQ+ Economic Summit & Expo is set to return Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025, bringing together LGBTQ+ and allied business owners, professionals, and job seekers for a day focused on economic empowerment, networking, and inclusion. Held at the...
Just average? New economic study marks a drop from previous high marks for Denver area
The Denver Gazette - Colorado
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A recent report tracking the metro Denver area’s economic performance over recent months is warning that the standout grades the area had been posting for almost a decade are now showing signs of slumping. Consumer spending, population increase...
Great Salt Lake declines may pose a multitude of problems for Utahns
Utah Public Radio
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July 30, 2025
The Great Salt Lake has dropped low enough that forced conservation measures will be enacted. During a news conference on Tuesday, Great Salt Lake Commissioner Brian Steed — tasked by Utah political leaders with coming up with a plan to save the...
Market Street shops brace as construction continues to stifle business
Billy Penn - Pennsylvania
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July 30, 2025
Angelo Pizza opened his namesake restaurant on Market Street in November 2020, and survived the pandemic. But it’s ongoing construction, not COVID-19, that has proven the biggest threat to his business. “If I were a newer business, we probably...
Utah’s energy future: A collaborative approach to natural resource management
Utah Business
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July 30, 2025
This story appears in the July 2025 issue of Utah Business. Subscribe. Utah’s natural beauty and abundant resources are central to the state’s identity and economy, and as we continue to grow, managing these resources with wise stewardship is more...
Opinion: Protecting Utah’s disability infrastructure — why UCEDDs are indispensable
Deseret News - Utah
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July 30, 2025
Disability is not a political issue; it is a universal human experience. At some point in our lives, whether through genetics, accident, illness or aging, disability will touch every family. Today, 25% of Americans live with a disability, a figure...
Gainesville-Hall County tops list of small metros with best business climate
NE Atlanta News - Georgia
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July 29, 2025
Gainesville-Hall County Metro has been named the top small metro area for Best Business Climate by Business Facilities magazine in its 2025 Annual Rankings Report. The report highlights cities and metropolitan areas across more than 60 categories...
Are Public Infrastructure Districts Hurting Utah Communities?
KDXU - Utah
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July 30, 2025
Beware of the new trend in housing developments -- the PID! Yes, there's a new trend in housing developments and it's not good for the average consumer. Basically, if a developer wants to build a new housing development that doesn't yet have...
Nature's Bakery to open $240M facility in Salt Lake City
KSL - Utah
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SALT LAKE CITY — A massive Nature's Bakery facility is opening this week as part of its parent company's pledge to invest $2 billion into U.S. manufacturing over the next year and a half. The new 339,000-square-foot facility, located at 2331 N....
LeClaire-Schlosser Group Brokers Sale of 467-Unit Self-Storage Facility in West Valley City, Utah
REBusinessOnline
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July 30, 2025
6WEST VALLEY CITY, UTAH — The LeClaire-Schlosser Group of Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Towne Storage Colt Plaza, a 60,325-square-foot self-storage facility in West Valley City. A joint venture between Towne Storage and a local...
Stigma, politics lead some states to rebrand Medicaid. Here's what it is in Tennessee
Memphis Commercial Appeal - Tennessee
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President Donald Trump's tax law includes cuts to federal Medicaid funding and new work or volunteer requirements for recipients. Many states have rebranded their Medicaid programs, often omitting "Medicaid" from the name entirely. Tennessee's...
State financial officers urge financial institutions to abandon ESG
Regional Media News - Iowa
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July 30, 2025
(The Center Square) – A group of 26 financial officers from 21 states sent letters to 18 major financial institutions this week, warning them to abandon environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices if they wish to continue doing business...
Despite Monumental Backlash, Utah's Legislature Still Wants to Sell Public Land
RideApart
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July 30, 2025
I surmise that I sound like a broken record at this point, but the vast majority of the public believes that our public lands should remain in public hands. They should not, under any circumstances, be sold off to property developers, mineral and...
Salt Lake City School Board member agrees to resign following election bribery charges
Kiowa County Press - Colorado
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July 29, 2025
The Salt Lake City School Board member who prosecutors say tried to bribe his political opponent last year has agreed to resign as part of a plea agreement. Mohamed Baayd, 49, won his election as the incumbent candidate for the district’s Precinct...
WSU guest opinion: ‘Zillennials’ know Weber State is the smart investment for Utahns
Standard Examiner - Utah
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On Utah’s Capitol Hill, I’m often among the youngest in conversations with our legislators. As a Zillennial — born between millennials and Gen Z — I’m part of a microgeneration that grew up fast, graduated college in uncertain times, and is now...
Guest opinion: Why I brought back Grillfest — and why Utah needs it
Daily Herald - Utah
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In the early 2010s, a group of us in Utah’s underground music scene came together to transform a backyard into an amphitheater. We brought together all the things we loved most — tasty food, good music and each other. We called it Grillfest — a...
Gordon Monson: Deja vu, all over again? Utah and BYU preseason football predictions in 2025 mirror (incorrect) guesses in 2024
The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
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Is there an echo in here? I swear, there’s an echo in here. Based on an assortment of 2025 Big 12 football prognostications from people who are supposed to know about such things regarding Utah and BYU, each of which just opened preseason camps,...
As Trump admin pulls back on science, Utah’s budding conservationists say job prospects look grim
The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
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July 30, 2025
Locomotive Springs • This summer, Weber State University researchers and a team of volunteers took on an ambitious chore — re-counting the flocks of snowy plovers nesting on the shrinking Great Salt Lake’s shores. It’s not an easy task. The birds...
Salt Lake City received 'courtesy notice' before fire that destroyed 2 Millcreek buildings
KSL - Utah
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MILLCREEK — Salt Lake City received a "courtesy notice" about overgrown weeds three days before a brush fire erupted on its property and quickly spread to a nearby Millcreek apartment complex, destroying a pair of buildings. The cause of Friday's...
Letter: From ICE raids to the gutting of USAID, I don’t understand how LDS politicians can stay silent in the face of suffering
The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
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(Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Salt Lake LDS Temple and the Utah State Capitol are seen together, Wednesday, July 26, 2017. My parents and LDS Church leaders taught me about our responsibility to care for the poor and needy. The...